Color
#858260
#858260rgb(133, 130, 96)hsl(55, 16%, 45%)oklch(0.6 0.049 103.5)Colors that go with #858260
Charcoal, Medium Purple and Champagne lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #858260: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Medium Purple #9370db
complementaryshippedMedium Purple sits directly opposite #858260 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped7 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #858260, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #858260 in 4 real palettes, including Five Guys's brand system and Netflix's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #858260: 9 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #858260 in 5 real palettes, including Bookshop and Rolex's brand system, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped5 real palettes, including Kiln and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #858260, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #858260 in 4 real palettes, including Subaru's brand system and Slate Workspace, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #858260
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #858260 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.92:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.36:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #858260 as the background.
Brands using this color
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Fonts for this mood
#858260 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #858260 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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